By Jake New. Author of a new book on how family matters for college women's success argues that four-year public institutions are increasingly dependent on active -- and wealthy -- parents, and that can harm students with less-involved parents. Read more...
By Jake New. Law professors issue joint letter saying Education Department guidance to colleges goes too far and poses risks to the rights of accused and of institutions. Read more...
By Jake New. Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse, more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases. Read more...
By Ellen Wexler. New twist in the debate over unpaid internships is whether colleges should charge tuition for them. Read more...
By Ellen Wexler. Too often, service learning prioritizes students over the people with whom they work, Randy Stoecker argues in a new book. Read more...
By Ellen Wexler. Over the next nine years, the country will be short as many as 95,000 doctors. To attract them to underserved areas, medical schools are forming regional partnerships. Read more...
By Rick Seltzer. Tuition discount rates keep climbing to previously unseen levels at private colleges and universities, leaving institutions caught between the need to enroll highly price-conscious students and the squeeze discounting places on the amount of money they end up netting. Read more...
By Rick Seltzer. Plans to spend as much as $6 million to convert a city street into a pedestrian promenade through Syracuse University’s campus have reopened rifts over faculty involvement, spending priorities and town-gown separation less than three years into a new chancellor’s term. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Some 30 percent of female medical academics have experienced sexual harassment on the job, compared to 4 percent of their male counterparts, according to a new research letter in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. At Dartmouth, an Asian-American professor receives unanimous English department backing and is rejected at higher levels. The same happened to a black historian at the college. Many see a disturbing pattern. Read more...
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